WEEK 3- Hoods

I knew from the start that the hood was going to be the most difficult thing to create for this technical jacket and after taking 10 attempts to go from a 2 panelled hood to a close fitted, 4 panelled hood, it took some time to master. I wanted to concentrate on hood, as its a constant problem for me when I'm walking that my hood will blow off, or not completely cover my face so I get wet, 90s fringe for the rest of the day.

Starting from a 2 panelled hood was going to be hard to get the shape right to go around the head, as the seam is normal down the middle (making a pointed hood). I measured the neckline of my first toile and created a curve to the measurement of my head, which was way to big, and made it out of scrap calico. This can be seen in the picture to the right, showing how much of the hood I needed to cut off before it was even going to sit closer to the head. From this I developed many hood from 6-panelled with triangle panels, to a simple 3-panel hood. The part that didn't fit right was the curve, so I had to redo that part about 4 time just so it didn't look as square.

The final hood can be seen in the picture to the left, which consists of 5 panels: two at the side and one middle strip. By having the diagonal line on the side panel it allowed to the hood to fit even closer to the face, which is what I wanted. Also with this hood I chose to use a lightweight fabric as I knew that it would have similar fabric qualities to what I want to use for my garment.

Overall, taking the time to really thing into making a hood fit better around the head has made me thing more into sampling parts of the garment into more detail to see what needs improving or if theres another way to prevent water, etc. I like that I've done this as well, as it legitimatises my work/garment more and that was a key area for me to focus on this year (to become more functional),